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Re: slippery rovner?

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2015-11-24 23:21

Maybe I like the suggestion that the Rovner to which we refer is too large.

What I was thinking about Legere is this: It becomes clear with a plastic reed that the ONLY thing holding a conically shaped ligature onto a conically shaped mouthpiece is the FRICTION between a cane reed and mouthpiece, and the FRICTION between a cane reed and ligature. Remove the friction and you remove the grip.

I found this out fast during my Legere experiments. Any ligatures that already tended to be less grippy, didn't even stand a chance of working with the Legeres. It was only THEN I realized how tentative the whole proposition is. We just take this for granted our whole careers and don't necessarily consider what is actually happening.

...............Paul Aviles

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